Bleasdale are Australia's second oldest family owned winery, established 1850 by English migrant Frank Potts. Potts built much of Adelaide's early colonial works before settling down to his homestead at Langhorne Creek. A prolific accumulator of trophys and gold medals, Bleasdale has claimed Best Australian Red Trophy at the prestigious London International Wine Challenge. An excruciatingly limited release Cabernet Sauvignon, assembled around a core of elite parcels picked off the Bleasdale estate Mullianna and Reed Patch Blocks.

The benchmark in Langhorne Creek Chardonnay, vinified from the choicest parcels grown to some of the nation's most fertile soils. Whilst Bleasdale is steeped in the history of Australian red winemaking, it maintains a flair for exuberant whites. A dry, lightly wooded style showing attractive fresh lingering flavours of pear juice, melons and peach. A jubilant white to enjoy lively and young, alongside your favourite chicken, white meat and seafood recipes for maximum enjoyment.

Exclusively Langhorne Creek Shiraz and nothing but the finest of the pick. Bleasdale are one of the new world's great dynasties of wine, still in family hands after six generations of viticulture. Founder Frank Potts was a legendary figure who built much of the new colony's townworks. Fruit is destemmed into traditional open fermenters and pumped over several times daily, drained and pressed after a fortnight and racked to a selection of new and seasoned French and American oak hogsheads and puncheons for a year's maturation.

The first colonists to arrive in South Australia were brought to Kangaroo Island aboard HMS Buffalo in 1836. Sharing the journey was a veteran of the Royal Navy who had served aboard Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. Frank Potts was an accomplished sailor and carpenter, he built many of the young colony's structures and trading vessels. The heritage listed wineworks at Bleasdale are only part of his legacy, six generations later, the Potts family call upon the original hand made basket press to process the fruit of vines established by Mr Potts in 1858.

Frank Potts established the Bleasdale vineyards in 1850, his eponymously labelled wine commemorates a legacy of innovation and resourcefulness. Frank Potts is a Bordeaux styled Cabernet which may contain varying portions of Malbec or Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc or Merlot depending on the performance of vintage. A litany of trophies and gold for the Bleasdale flagship, highly rated in many Jimmy Watson taste offs, Frank Potts has also claimed gold and trophy for best Australian red at the prestigious London International Wine Challenge.

A rigorous tasting selection of the best barrels Malbec from a superior Langhorne Creek site, only ever made to small batch techniques in the most exceptional vintage years. Fruit is destemmed and open fermented, pumped over four times daily and pressed into a selection of well seasoned French oak puncheons for malolactic and a year's maturation. The ultimate expression of Malbec from Bleasdale, rich and full bodied, intense violet, boysenberry and black olive characters throughout, powerful fruit flavour and firm grape tannin structure.

The traditional Australian claret style of Shiraz and Cabernet with a touch of Malbec. Bleasdale have been at it for generations, the masters at producing honest, reliable red wine. There's an urban myth among Bleasdale's community of local growers, that you have to have double letters in your name before you can be a winemaker at Langhorne Creek. Estate patriarch Lloyd Stanley Sticky Potts may have established the tradition. Potts was a motorcycling enthusiast all his life, the label depicts him practicing a broadside turn.

Bleasdale founder Frank Potts was one of the earliest and most industrious builders in the colony of South Australia, he constructed a robust and enduring system of locks and weirs in the 1850s, employed to this day for controlling the seasonal floods which breach the banks of Bremer River. The eponymously named Bremerview Shiraz is vinified from fruit grown to unique soils, a drier, full flavoured wine which shows the distinctive local characteristics of rich blackberry flavours, eucalypt aromaticness and earthy, warming tannins.

While Bleasdale is steeped in history, it remains focused on crafting the finest possible styles for contemporary palates. Bleasdale work to the estate founder's philosophy of producing honest, consistent and reliable wines. Less than an hour away in the verdant Adelaide Hills, vineyards which can yield the quality of fruit worthy of the Bleasdale label, have been harvested right at the time that grapes achieve perfect ripeness and judicious levels of crisp acidity. A vivyfying, fragrant and aromatic Sauvignon Blanc to enjoy as aperitif or alongside the freshest faire.

What fine Pinot Gris that Adelaide Hills can make. Crisp mountain breezes meander around the veritable maze of sub valleys and undulating hillsides, stimulating the vines and enhancing exotic citrus nut varietal characters in the grapes. Bleasdale have taken their pick of fruit from the finest vineyards planted to loamy, low fertility sands which are ideal for Pinot Gris. After a quick trek back to the Bleasdale wineworks, fruit is treated to a prompt vinification and early bottling to retain the vitally luminous expression of Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris.

Adelaide Hills are but an hour's drive from Bleasdale but the style of Chardonnay grown to the cool ripening aspects of elevated, undulating hillsides is a world away from that grown to the Bleasdale property at Langhorne Creek. The Adelaide Hills style is distinctly crisper and more aromatic, one could say it even tastes chilled at room temperature. An extravagant course of barrel ferments, wild yeast vinification and lees exposure makes a richly textured Chardonnay wine with good colour, savoury vanillan aromatics and solid palate structure.

Black Chook clucks to the sparkle of a lively tune. An assemblage of vintage Shiraz wines, aged in older French oak barrels where they develop layers of fruit and a rich weighty texture across the palate. A component of younger wine contributes ripe juicy red and black berry flavours. Destined to compliment turkey and pork or the richest desserts, to be served at every celebration.

From good vineyards in the McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek, an assemblage of Shiraz wines that have been vinified and aged separately, isolated on the basis of character and complexity, then woven into a tapestry of remarkable integration. Tiraged and treated to a secondary fermentation in bottle, Black Chook has developed a rich chocolate and cherry ripe palate with light biscuitty oak and gummy, chewy tannins. A luscious Sparkling Shiraz, sagaciously balanced, destined to compliment pork, turkey, and every festive engagement.

The Black Chook team have been to woop woop and back, way past the black stump and all through the outback. They've sourced grapes from the finest sites, almost losing themselves amongst the vines to find the right fruit. Bundles of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from hand chosen vineyards are fashioned into a splendid experience in effervescence by the intrepid and illustrious team at Galvanized Wine Group. An exquisitely balanced, creamily textured sparkler with generosity of flavour, to match with smart nibbles or your favourite recipe roast chook.

There are few winemakers as predisposed as Ben Riggs, to appropriate the best parcels of McLaren Vale Shiraz, which are vinified alongside a component of superlative Langhorne Creek fruit, to achieve a juicy and textural, mouth filling wine. Riggs long and intimate association with McLaren Vale gives him a comprehensive knowledge of the most splendid sites and dedicated growers. A stylish construct of Shiraz with an alluring bouquet, layered complex palate and malleable tannins, Black Chook has gained fans across Australia and around the world.

Black Chook is a collaboration between maestro Ben Riggs and Tony Parkinson, proprietor of the salubrious Penny's Hill. Grapes are sourced from the Tomich property at Woodside in Onkaparinga Valley, a family owned and operated vineyard which yields the quality of fruit which has brought Adelaide Hills such renown. A vital Sauvignon Blanc that's fresh, beautiful to the taste and as invigorating as the cool Hills from whence it came, the idyllic growing conditions at Woodside deliver a gorgeous wine with crisp mineral textures and revitalizing palate.

The beauty of Black Chook Free Range GSV is just how the Viognier and Grenache can work so well together. Adelaide Hills is known the world over for the magnificence of it's Viognier. The unequivocally cool climate and grey to grey brown loamy sands of low to moderate fertility have also proven idyllic for Grenache. The winemaking team know McLaren Vale very well and retain access to the finest parcels of Shiraz, full flavoured and ripe with juicy acid and balanced tannins.

The pick of crop Adelaide Hills Shiraz, albeit in a very Cote du Rhone kind of way. Hand picked and gently destemmed into small open top vats, a fifth of the harvest remains as whole bunches, tipped over top of the ferments and treated to a minimalist, long, cool temperature vinification, minimal pump overs and gentle pigeage, followed by eighteen months in a mix of seasoned and new French oak barriques. Vivid purple, lifted aromatics, blackberry, violets and herb, juicy fruit weight, silky, slightly chalky tannins underpinning the bright acidity, Syrah of structure and superior length.

Bird In Hand do indeed put good thing into small packages, they have taken the cream of their suave, sparkling Pinot Noir and placed into Piccolo for the ultimate gesture in sharing. Those who love wine will also be fond of art, music, good taste and clever design. Sparkling red wines are part of a broader experience of so many things that bring joy. Elegant with a pretty, raspberry nose and refined effervescence, packaged for that memorable celebratory toast, the perfect accompaniement to picnics, hors deouvres and smart nibbles.

Enthused by a consuming desire to make great wine, Andrew Nugent honed his craft as viticulturalist and winemaker amongst the vines of McLaren Vale before returning to the Adelaide Hills, where he established his very own wineworks at Woodside. Hand crafted from fruit grown to mineral rich soils above the historic Bird in Hand gold mine, a pure Pinot Noir with superb effervescence, dominated by red berry characters, adorned by a lift of stonefruits and floral.

The dedicated team at Bird in Hand are driven by a determination to grow into one of the world's great wineries. Proprietor Andrew Nugent lives and works among the vines and the winery. He has assembled the best team, he's painstakingly selected the perfect terroir and is well on his way to realizing the ultimate dream. Bird in Hand is an extremely limited release which has claimed a breathtaking list of wine show accolades, including International Wine Challenge trophies for best Adelaide Hills red, best Australian red and best Australian Shiraz.

An unassuming young winegrower took his chances in 1997 with the re-emerging viticultural precinct of Adelaide Hills. Andrew Nugent planted vines and an olive grove on a hundred acres of land along Bird in Hand Road at Woodside. His efforts have since claimed a staggering list of awards for excellence on the international wine show circuit. Bird In Hand's preoccupations with growing and crafting the finest quality Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc have earned the highly prestigious George Mackey nomination for most outstanding exported wine.

A harvest of Pinot Noir grown to the estate vineyard at Woodside, gingerly crushed and treated to a judicious term of skin exposure for a blush of rakish salmon pink hues. A long cool ferment retains the vivaciousness of fruit, chicly attired in comely pink bottle, fashioned by design industry celebre Dion Lee. Lifted lipstick perfumes and cherry blossom notes, ripe red berry flavours and the crunch of orchard fruits are enhanced by a crisp, clean and dry finish. A sensational aperitif alongside nibbles or hors d oeuvres, canapes or dessert.

The Adelaide Hills are a pastoral paradise for olives groves, Bird In Hand have been rewarded with the highest international accolades for the excellence of their fruit and cold pressed oils. Pinot Gris is a variety that thrives amongst the olive groves, an exquisite aperitif style that's sensational with food. Hand picked and whole bunch pressed to capture nothing but the purest juices, its fragrant white peach, lychee and pear bouquet reveals just a hint of savoury and musk, the perfect accompaniement to delicate white meats or terrines, pheasant recipes or quail.

Bird in Hand is a vibrant and dynamic winery, full of life and passion. Andrew Nugent has assembled the best team and painstakingly selected the perfect terroir. It's the attention to detail and uncompromising passion for quality which have placed Bird in Hand amongst Australia's best. Nest Egg is an Adelaide Hills flagship, the very best Bird in Hand has to offer, only ever made in the most outstanding vintages. Aged in the finest French oak, Nest Egg evolves elegant, intense primary fruit characters, growing ever more complex and savoury over time.

Adelaide Hills make world class Merlot, genteel, velvety wines, solidly structured, brimming with intense lozenge flavours and resonant with exemplary varietal character. Bird in the Hand are without compromise, the most exacting standards of winemaking. An excruciatingly limited edition, only a few hundred cases are ever made, quality of harvest permitting, from the most superlative parcels of vintage. Vinified and pressed into the finest French oak for eighteen months, its fleshy plum and mulberry palate is draped in a delicate muslin of fine, silky tannins.

Nest Egg are only ever made from the most exceptional years, a few hundred cases of the finest Adelaide Hills vintage, each bottle is individually numbered. Treated to the luxury of wild yeasts and full malolactic, lees stirring battonage and nine months of age in quality French oak, a structured and concentrated Chardonnay of amazing sophistication and superior length. Its bright, clear palate of nectarine and peach, pineapples, bakers cream and hazelnut spice, are supported by a wonderful crystalline textures, toothy grape tannins and savoury, buttery oak.

Andrew Nugent grew up next door to the ancient Penfold wineworks at Magill. He established a profound reputation as viticulturalist amongst the grand old estates of McLaren Vale, before returning to sow his very own vineyards in Adelaide Hills. Treated to eighteen months in a selection of the finest French oak, Nest Egg's bramble, anise and cherry largess are supported by a caisson of opulent ebony tannins. Only ever made of the finest vintages, growing season 2013 yielded a mere 800 dozen individually numbered bottles of Nest Egg Cabernet Sauvignon.

The great grape of Sicily, a big flavoursome style, characterised by its generosity and upfront bramble fruit richness. Nero d'Avola loves the sunshine, Bird In Hand have planted their stocks to the warmest slopes on Adelaide Hills. Treated to a week and a half of ferment on skins for optimal extractions, a proportion of the berries are left whole for complexity. Sixteen months in French oak has built a wine of intensity, seamlessness and palate weight, its spicy black olive savouryness, plummy flesh and lithe, sweet gummy tannins resolve on a lingering, peppery finish.

There's a single block of Montepulciano along Bird In Hand Road at Woodside in the northern Adelaide Hills, a warmer site with rocky, well drained soils, perfectly suited for Italians. The seaside influence of Gulf of St. Vincent, the cloud trapping rise of Mount Lofty Ranges and generous Australian sun, all conspire to form a unique diurnal temperature shift that wine grapes love. A completely hand made wine, crafted from fruit grown to the mineral rich soils above an historic, eponymously named gold mine.

Adelaide Hills make mighty Merlot, the cooler temperatures, elevated aspects and sheltered mesoclimes are Shangri La for the exceptional ripening and outstanding tannin development worthy of the finest Medoc. Hand picked throughout the fogswept hours of early morning, the worthiest hand picked bunches are treated to a week of ferment before a course of fourteen months in a selection of artisanaly coopered French oak barriques. Redolent of mulberries, plum and festive spice, its fine silky tannins in support of the graceful, elegant high altitude fruit.

Bird In Hand established vines on a choice piece of terroir among the undulating idylls of Valley Clare, to secure harvests of Riesling in a very different style to the crisp high altitudes fruit grown at Woodside. Hand picked grapes are whole bunch pressed to extract nothing but the cleanest free run juices, a pure and pristine Riesling wine of striking elegance. Floral and fragrant with hints of lanolin, jasmine and quartz, the quintessential Clare Valley hallmarks of heady lime and flinty limestone, crisp and delicate with beautiful citrus acidity.

For aspirants in pursuit of nothing but the best, hand picked and whole bunch pressed into a high proportion of new French oak for a wild indigenous yeast ferment, completion of malolactic and nine months lees stirring battonage. Each barrel is pointedly encouraged to complete its course as an individual wine until the final assemblage. Intensely aromatic of white nectarines, apricot and grapefruits over subtle creamy cashew and nougat richness, a richly textured, weighty palate framed by bright acidity and a veneer of the most delicate, showroom oak.

A compilation of bespoke parcels Cabernet, hand chosen off a tally of superior, limited yield sites across the premier viticultural precincts of Adelaide Hills, Macclesfield, Birdwood and Kersbrook. Bunches are crushed into fermenters for a week on skins, followed by transfer to a luxuriously high proportion of new French oak barriques for eighteen months maturation before assemblage. Full bodied, fleshy, long silky tannins in support of the defined Cabernet muscularity, its cassis, cedar and black bramble opulence to match with entrecote, Jus and shallot.

Vineyards and olive groves are co habitants, almost everywhere around the globe. Bird In Hand are proud of both, their olives have been met with prestigious accolades throughout the world of gastronomy. Harvested during the chill of night to capture and preserve the uniqueness of Arneis, parcels are crushed and destemmed, a minor part is sent to French oak barrels for vinification, the balance is treated to a long, cool ferment. Textural and defined, the crisp dry white of choice to serve alongside pinenut calamari, rice stuffed vegetables and all Mediterranean fare.

From vines up to forty years of age grown to the Schrapel Vineyards, with the inclusion of parcels from neighbour's blocks in the Barossa foothills. The cornerstone wine of the Schrapel family reds, in a style which has made Barossa famous for Shiraz the world over. Parcels of perfectly ripened grapes are treated to traditional old world techniques which date back to early settlement, followed by extended maturation in fine oak. Decant for three hours then savour the spiced fruit aromas and plush plum palate alongside roast or steak.

Barossa makes magic Semillon. The Schrapel family had the foresight to sow Semillon vines long ago, the quality of fruit that grows from these old plantings is now outstanding. Eighteen days of ferment are followed by a course of lees stirring battonage and partial exposure to oak for added splendour. Grapefruit, apples and pears to the bouquet, the palate flows with delicate flavours, gooseberries, lemon and lime. Like all Semillon, Bethany affords the opportunity to experience a growing complexity of remarkable richness as the wine continues to evolve.

Grenache is picked very late in the season at optimal ripeness, off three very precious blocks, fifty to ninety years of age on the Schrapel family vineyards. These gnarled old plantings yield grapes of striking intensity, power and beauty, treated to a minimalist vinification, to capture and retain the spectacular quality of fruit within the bottle. A seductively redolent nose of black cherries, hibiscus flowers and cacao, followed by a feminine palate of wild strawberries and dark spice over a seamless tapestry of fine grained tannins.

Lawrence and Edna Schrapel toiled away in the vineyards along Bethany Road in Tanunda, establishing one of the great marques in Barossa foothills Shiraz. The work remains very hands on, the choicest parcels are set aside for a course of traditional open ferments, malolactic and pressing to a slection of exclusively new French oak barrels for a year's maturation. Its big, vibrant bouquet of fragrant wild berries, oake clove and spice, precede an opulent palate of blueberries, bramble and plum, supported fine grain tannins and juicy fruit acidity.

Bethany's Reserves are wines of evolution rather than creation. GR has achieved the prestigious Trust Mark as one of the Barossa's most eminent Shiraz, but it's not every year that one is made. Parcels of the most exquisite grapes are picked from splendid sites and treated to an exacting vinification. With each vintage, harvests are assessed and a decision is made to determine if there is a parcel of GR quality. A formidable, full bodied classic with an enormous palate and undeniable ageing potential, only a few hundred cases are ever bottled.

Every year, there was a single parcel which kept attracting the attention of Bethany winemakers. The fruit of a small property, less than five acres at the foothills of Barossa ranges, planted to vine sixty years of age, grown to classic Barossa red brown earths overlaying limestone. The small yields here deliver small berries with the most extraordinary flavour, whilst the breezes around the foothills ensure a gradual ripening of the finest tannins. Parcels that are worthy of inclusion are treated to a separate vinification and matured in the finest oak hogsheads.

An assemblage of parcels off the Schrapel estate property and a close neighbour's vineyard, coalescing into the magical alchemy between the Barossa Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon, so eloquently varietal yet beguilingly approachable. Fruit is fermented on skins for optimal extractions, rack and returned before pressing into American and French oak barrels for an extravagant two years maturation. Blackcurrants, mulberries and pencil shaves before a gentle black fruits palate, its taught framework of fine grained tannins resolve on a long, perfumed finish.

Cabernet and Merlot are sourced from the Schrapel family vineyards at Bethany and neighbouring sites along the Barossa foothills. The Bethany property is replete with vines, decades old, which are very low yielding and produce fruit of great intensity and flavour. The special microclimate of the foothills is reflected in the bright, dark cherry colour, enticingly fragrant aroma and full flavoured, harmonious palate. The powerful structure of Cabernet is complemented by the suppleness of Merlot, a style which can be enjoyed fully whilst young.

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